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...money and education. Natural outlaws, all the Bishop women steal when they feel they must. What with their improvised clothes and makeshift domestic solutions, they seem like Little Women turned inside out. In fact, the girls stage an amateur production of the novel in which Loco plays both Beth and Amy. She also plays both in her own life. Like Beth, she dies. Like Amy, she has a tantalizing streak of amorality...
Though it may be satisfying for mothers, is single parenthood good for children? The experts have their doubts. Psychological studies suggest that among unwed mothers, it is the most unstable who keep their babies. Some of these women, says Boston Psychiatrist Malkah Notman of Beth Israel Hospital, have a neurotic need to be "the sun in someone's universe." Others, says Boston Psychologist David Haughey, cling to their infants not out of love but out of anger. "They are either rebelling against parents who want them to give up their babies or trying to force the man who fathered...
Born. To Michael Wilding Jr., 18, son of Elizabeth Taylor and Husband No. 2, Actor Michael Wilding, and Beth Wilding, 19: their first child, a daughter; in London. Said Grandma: "It's just fantastic! Just like drinking hot toddy...
...says Mary Beth Brill, an unabashed eighth-grader in the "new town" of Columbia, Md. Yet the Wilde Lake Middle School (grades 6 through 8), which she now attends, looks at first like a model of irresponsibility. It lacks neat classrooms, desks in rows, hands raised before speaking. Many of its 750 students sprawl in conversational clusters on the carpeted floors. They spend most of their time jumbled into three vast rooms called "pods" that hold 250 kids apiece. Since the pods are really one-room schoolhouses, Wilde Lake sounds like a hive of teen-agers doing their homework with...
...Beth, who is taking university courses and working in a psychiatric health center, finds more to criticize. "There's a Victorian inequality of opportunity for women here, a great waste of women's resources. Women here don't seem to think they have the right to speak. Even well-educated women hesitate to enter a dinner-table conversation unless asked...